When adding possessive-S/apostrophe to a list, the rule is only the last person has the apostrophe if the item is shared, or everyone has one if they have the items each, e.g.
John and Mary's houses ...

I am wondering if I am supposed to put "their masses" in this sentence:
"The mass of the anhydrous salt and the water evaporated after heating would be lower than {their masses} if the compound had ...

I’m not a native English speaker and it seems I can’t find enough suitable and different phrases for introducing lists. I’m writing an abstract for a scientific conference and would like to avoid word ...

"I hate hard candy and olives." When someone says that, does it mean they hate candy and olives that are both hard, or hard candy and non-hard olives? If the latter, then wouldn't "I hate olives and ...

I have the sentence "These data sets span domains such as environmental data, geospatial data, business data".
If I remove the repeated data i.e. "These data sets span domains such as environmental, ...

I'm struggling with the following sentence in an APA format paper. I don't like the double usage of and here, but 'supply and demand' is one thing in this context. Is this correct or do I need to make ...

I am attempting to write a list of pairs of people, like so: "The pairings are Bob and Jane, Joe and Mary, and Fred and Ashley." This works fine in that the comma lets you know where each pairing is ...

I have a list of classes (titles) which have colons as a part of the titles, in this list should I use commas or semi-colons to separate them? (there are no items which have commas internally to them)
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I've continually struggled with this sentence arrangement. I have a list of 2 groups, but one of the groups is also a group of 2. Example:
"I need help finding turtles and brown and grey foxes"
The ...